Improvement in straw-cutters



N. LEZAT` `Straw Cutter. No. 45,376. PatentednDec, 6, 1.864.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NELSON LEZAT, OF NEW BALTIMORE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO IIIMSELF AND EGBERT M. PALMER, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN STRAW-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,376. dated December 6, 1864.

as the straw passes through. The rollers h and i are to be geared together, as usual.

l l are cranks on the [nain shaft c, with pitmen m m, to a cross-bar, u, at the lower end of the frame o, carrying the knife 19, and moving in slides t. This knife p is made twoedged and set diagonally, so as to cut with a shearing eut against the stationary bars q q', that are above and below the opening through which the straw is protruded by the action of the rollers h and i. These bars q q are sustained by or formed with the bars r, that the knife-ends touch upon as the frame ois slid 3 up and down.

Straw-cutters have heretofore been made,S

with atwo-edgeol knife acting against the ezlges of a| vertical hopper.

combination with feeding-rollers and with stationary bars or shears above and below the opening through which the straw passes, so i that said straw is eut upward and then downward, so that any dust or grit that would inthan heretofore.

liure the knife is shaken out of the straw. and the cutting operation is much more rapid l l for the purposes set forth.

In the drawings, a, is the frame; b, the feedl signature this 7 th day of J une., A. l). 1864.

ing-trough. c is the main shaft over the feeding-trough, actuated by the crank g, and may have a fly-wheel, f, to render the rotation z more uniform, or a pulley and belt may be used to rotate this shaft c. wheel, c, driving the roller h, and i" is the d is a pinion to a lower roller on springs r, so that it will yield The reciprocating two edged knife, actul ated by the cranks in the manner specified, in combination with the feeding-rollers IL and i, and with the bars or standing-shears above and below the opening through which the straw or similar material is protruded, as and In witness whereof I have hereunto set my his NELSON LEZAT.

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\Vitnesses LEMUEL W. SERRELL, Trios. GEo. HAROLD. 

